Luck Be A Lady (Not) Tonight

I’m not sure if it was for a scarcity of resources, the willingness to punish a poor young soul or the fact that a test of skills was needed by Garry (GG) had scheduled me on Event 17 - $1,000 Ladies World Championship . . . with him.

I arrived before GG, but my chance of writing the tournament preview was snatched away – obviously he didn’t trust my creative juices! Either way we had 1,060 ladies take to the felt from the humble grandmother to the college girl to the experienced pro.

It all started smoothly as we lost ladies left, right and centre; with the pros being early casualties in Tiffany Michelle, Kirsty Gazes, Marsha Waggoner, Maya Gellar, Mandy Baker and Liv Boeree.

 

A windswept Liv

GG would spend most of the day running round taking care of PokerNews business leaving me in charge to carry out the blogging duties – which of course didn’t change anything for me, but seemed to worry GG slightly.

However, by days end it had seemed that GG’s trust factor had increased from 6% to a whopping 8.5%, and he left early. As the chips were bagged we saw Tamara Tibbles on top with Maria Ho and Erica Schoenberg holding the fort down for the pros.

 

Erica Schoenberg

Even with the early finish I still had to wait around for Eric to finish and once it rolled round to 3am we all made our way back home . . . and for me and Donnie . . . straight to SouthPoint!

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We both strolled in like we owned the place . . . not cause we thought we were King-Dick but because we were going to buy in deep on the $2-4 Limit Holdem table so as to look all balla-like.

I wussed out however and only bought in for $200 while Donnie manned-up and bought in for $300; but that didn’t stop us from covering the table together with the average stack sitting at around $60.

First hand in the blinds we went to war against each other with my Queens running second best to his Aces and then some of the players started to realise that they were probably a long shot to grind out a profit (plus the fact that it was 4am) and decided to leave.

Seven players, then six, then four, which included two kids from Ireland – one really hot 20-something and her boyfriend (sigh). Both on the drunk-side they kept things interesting for a while before they had to vacate as well. They didn’t leave us empty-handed as Sarah gave us her phone number as she was a bartender at Tryst Nightclub at the Wynn, and told us to contact her if we ever wanted to be put on the door list . . . ship it!

With only me and Donnie remaining there was no chance we were going to turn down the opportunity to own in each other’s souls heads-up and proceeded to battle it out. I was winning a few big bets until we were joined by a late 20-something/early 30-something who bought in for just $20. Of course I proceeded to dumb chips to him, and then he would hand then to Donnie – however the circle never completed!

Running terribly was an understatement, and come 9am I was down $100 and we called it a night . . . errr morning . . . either way we started our journey out the casino until I decided to donate my last $100 on the Baccarat and Roulette tables.

Home before 10am and down $200 . . . GG Southpoint